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DeWitt redo is hit of homecoming "With the new DeWitt Center, Hope Col- "1 travel all over the country and 1 tell expressed appreciationto all who had been lege finally again has a 'family room' where people that I am a graduate of Hope, Yale and participants in the project and made special we can center our relationshipsas a campus Michigan — and the greatestof these is note of the following major donors: Brothers community." Hope," Vander Jagt said. Willard, John, James and Victor Ver Meulen, That's how Associate Dean of Students After graduating from Hope, Vander Jagt in whose honor the administrativewing of David Vanderwel described the impact of the earned a bachelor of divinitydegree from DeWitt has been named; Jack and Dick De reopening of the DeWitt Center this fall after Yale and later graduated from the University Witt of Zeeland, Mich., major donors for the a year of expansion and renovation to trans- of Michigan School of Law. original building; Kenneth Herrick and the form it into a student center, an administra- Vander Jagt creditedHope with launching Herrick Foundation of Detroit,generous Col- tive center and improved facilitiesfor the his career, and pointed particularly to the lege supporters honored with the naming of theatre department. influenceof his speech professor,the late the Herrick Foundation Room, a meeting Vanderwel was one of several who made William Schrier, and his high school speech room, in DeWitt; Marvin DeWitt and Bil- remarks during DeWitt rededicationevents teacher, Neil Van Oostenburg, a 1927 Hope Mar Foods, Inc., of Zeeland, Mich., designa- which dominated the Homecomingactivities graduate. tors of a gift for the new Kletz cafeteria; the on Oct. 14 and 15. When Vander Jagt was interviewed on net- family of the late Titus J. Hager, designators DeWitt was built in 1972 at a cost of S2.8 work television following his address at the of a gift for the Hope-Geneva bookstore; and million as a student and cultural center. Its 1980 GOP convention, he made a point to Marble CollegiateChurch of New York City, renovation was prompted by a fire which mention Hope's influence on his oratorical designatorsof a gift for DeWitt's new student destroyed Hope's administrativecenter in ability. lounge. April, 1980, and by the need to make DeWitt Vander Jagt said he accepted the degree on Van Wylen also made special mention of a more energy-efficientstructure. The cost of behalf of his supporters. the support of Richard DeVos of Ada, Mich., the completed renovation was $3.2 million. "My success has. depended on how much so and of Edgar Prince of Holland, Mich. Approximately17,260 square feet have been many have given," he said. Robert W. Van Dis '47 of Kalamazoo, added to the building'soriginal 71,212 square Also speaking at the ceremony was Charles Mich., former Hope athlete, paid tribute to feet. Blacklock of Dow-Howell-Gilmore Associates, the late Milton L. Hinga, well loved Hope Dreary weather on Friday, Oct. 14, forced Inc., architects. Blacklock said the DeWitt professor,dean and coach after whom De formal dedicationceremonies indoors. Out- project satisfied the company's design goal of Witt student services complex is named. door festivitieshad been planned, including combining "creativity, utility, efficiency and Lunch-on-the-runwas the day's order for an all-campus Oktoberfest picnic, moved in- serenity." Congressman Vander Jagt, who left table to doors to,Phelps dining hall. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Victor deliver his remarks to the trees and bushes of Included in the dedicationceremony was W. Eimicke accepted the building'skeys from campus before springing them on the Col- the awarding of an honorary doctor of laws Blacklock and made special note of the De lege's invited guests. degree to U.S. Congressman Guy A. Vander Witt Center's "elegance," a quality which Vander Jagt reiterated how special the day Jagt '53. Vander Jagt, a Republican, has Eimicke said had only been enhanced by the was for him, putting it in league with "a served since 1966 as the Representative from renovation. dozen or so great moments of my life" — Michigan's Ninth District. David A. Van Dyke, a senior from Battle including his wedding day, the birthday of his Known for- his oratorical skills which led to Creek, Mich., and president of Hope's Stu- daughter and the day he deliveredthe GOP his deliveringthe keynote address at the 1980 dent Congress, also participated. He made keynote. Republican National convention, Vander Jagt, note of the spirit of community at Hope He described the honor as well beyond the though claiming to be somewhat at a loss for evident throughout the years of less-than- "impossible dreams" his father dared envision words as a result of the honor, did 'not adequate quarters for administrators and when he immigratedto the United States disappoint those gathered to witness "Silver through the patience of students who sacri- from The Netherlands as a youngster. Stand- Tongue's"second degree from Hope. Vander ficed a student center during the year of DE WITT TRIAD: Administrators, students ing on the dock at Hoboken, N.J., the little Jagt earned that nickname as a Hope under- renovation. and theatre-makers mingle in the new ver- Dutch boy's dreams stopped with a college graduate who won the nationalcollegiate or- A luncheon was held following the re- sion of the DeWitt Center. More photos and education for his offspring,Vander Jagt said. atorical championshipduring his senior year. dedication.President Gordon J. Van Wylen story inside. continued on page three College reviews enrollment, renews goals An enrollment decline. of 77 first-time stu- a decisionby spring regarding the new library During the early weeks of the semester, Inside dents and preliminary plans for a new library site. Options under considerationinclude the faculty attentionwas directedto the issue of Far from the moderate crowd are major news items as Hope begins the expansion and renovation of the present facil- equity in hiring, particularly as regards the History Professor Michael Pe- 1983-1984 academic year. ity, Van Zoeren Library,built in 1961, or issue of religious discrimination.In early Oc- According to a report from the registrar's constructionof a completely new library at tober the faculty voted in favor of clarifying trovich combines slapdash, se- office, this semester's headcount is 2,519, one of three more central campus' locations. proposed guidelines for faculty hiring in order rendipity, and wide-ranged compared to last year> 2,530. However, this to "ensure that the practice of religious ex- A recently completed program statement knowledge to create a style all year's full-timeequivalent (2,295) is 31 less clusivity in hiring will not occur." calls for a total of 63,500 sq. ft. in the new his own, page 6 than the 1982-1983 figure (2,326) and there library, compared to Van Zoeren's 27,000. Included in this' year's schedule is the cam- A dorm is not a are 66 fewer freshmen (583 compared to 649). home The new library will be designed to house pus visit on Nov. 14-16 of an accreditation The decrease in the number of freshmen is not at first, anyway. Find out 300,000 volumes, nearly double Van Zoeren's team of the North Central Association of offset by an increasein transfer students (133 about the transformationprocess intended capacity. A computerized catalogue Colleges and Schools. This visit culminates a compared to 101). Other good news is that 88 s.ystem, air-conditioning,a larger archives and thorough institutional self-studyconducted and how roommates are percent of last year's freshmen have returned a great increasein the amount and variety of last year under the direction of Prof. Nancy matched, pp. 10 & 11 this fall as sophomores. student study spaces are other improvements Miller of the education department. Writing it off "At this point, we are meeting our long- being incorporated in the plans. term goal of a stable enrollment," said Presi- In other developments, the College's Senior Tom Andrews’ poetry is Other year's beginning developmentsin- awaited third — and final — VAX 750 computer dent Gordon J. Van Wylen when asked to finding its way into some notable cluded President Gordon Van Wylen's an- arrived in early September.Underground comment on the enrollment picture. hands — and pages, page 5 conduits installed over the The student body is composed of 1,187 nouncement that he will retire at the end of were summer, Person to person men and 1,332 women from 39 states and 39 the 1985-86 academic year. readying the campus for the 140 slightly tardy terminals which arrived, several weeks A new admissions program in- foreign countries.Michigan has the largest Van Wylen initiated the current year with after school began. representation(1,864), followed by Illinois a call for "a major emphasis on renewal" as volving alumni and telephones (150), New York (98), New Jersey (85) and faculty convened for their pre-classes con- Yet another academic milestone is antici- personalizesthe path to Hope, Indiana (32).